EP 1637996 A2 20060322 - Disk subsystem monitoring fault
Title (en)
Disk subsystem monitoring fault
Title (de)
Festplattenuntersystem zur Fehlerüberwachung
Title (fr)
Sous-système de disque pour la surveillance de fautes
Publication
Application
Priority
JP 2004255626 A 20040902
Abstract (en)
This invention enables a disk subsystem that employs the FC-AL connection to grasp the operation status of each disk drive, quickly locate a disk drive that has failed, and promptly carry out blocking processing. In a disk subsystem including plural drive enclosures (500) which store disk drives (540), and a disk controller (10) which controls transfer of data stored in the disk drives (540) between the drive enclosures (500) and a host computer. The drive enclosures (500) each comprise a backend switch (530) which is connected to the disk drives (540) and to the disk controller (10), the backend switch (530) comprises a status monitoring port (53b) through which operation status of switch ports of the backend switch (530) is outputted, and the disk controller (10) monitors a fault of the switch ports through the status monitoring port.
IPC 8 full level
G06F 11/07 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
G06F 11/0727 (2013.01 - EP US); G06F 11/076 (2013.01 - EP US); G06F 11/0784 (2013.01 - EP US); G06F 11/079 (2013.01 - EP US); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01 - EP US); G06F 11/2053 (2013.01 - EP US); G06F 11/2089 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
DE FR GB IE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 1637996 A2 20060322; EP 1637996 A3 20091007; JP 2006072717 A 20060316; US 2006048018 A1 20060302; US 7702823 B2 20100420
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 05007077 A 20050331; JP 2004255626 A 20040902; US 98024204 A 20041104